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Front Page Template

By default, the homepage will display your latest posts in a traditional blog format. If you prefer, the Front Page template can be used to display three optional featured page areas, three optional widget areas, and a big leading image with a call-to-action (as seen in the image at the top and the theme demo).

If you’d like to use this template as the front page of your site, follow these instructions:

Add an introduction to your page. For best results, we recommend a few paragraphs.

Set a Featured Image. It will appear as the large header image on the front page. The image will be cropped for small screens to fit the available space, which means not all of the header image will be visible on all screen sizes, so decorative background images may work best. We recommend using an image 1230 pixels wide by 1230 pixels high.

Launch the Customizer and click on the Static Front Page tab on the left and set “Front page displays” to “A static page.”

Select the page to which you just assigned the Front Page template as “Front page,” and then choose another page as “Posts page” if you would like to display your blog posts.

If you’d like to display the three featured pages below the header image, create three new pages and then assign them from the Theme Options panel of the Customizer.

Primary Menu

The Primary Menu will display below your site title if you’ve selected the „classic“ Menu Style option. If the „default“ Menu Style option is selected, it will appear once the menu icon is triggered.

Secondary Menu

The Secondary Menu has been designed to provide quick links for your visitors. It only supports top-level links; if you have a child link, it won’t be displayed. The Secondary Menu will be displayed above your site title if you’ve selected the „classic“ Menu Style option, or it will appear at the top of your page, once the menu icon is triggered, if you’ve selected the „default“ Menu Style option.

Footer Menu

Like the Secondary Menu, the Footer Menu will only show the first level of links. On Edin’s demo site, the Footer Menu is used to display the social icons.

Social Icons

Edin allows you to display links to your social media profiles — like Twitter and Facebook — as icons using a Custom Menu.

Set up the menu

To automatically apply icons to your links, simply create a new Custom Menu and give it a name that starts with „Social“ (e.g. „Social Menu,“ „Social Links“). This specific name is important and must match exactly. Next, add each of your social links to this menu. Each menu item should be added as a custom link.

Once your menu is created and your social links are added, you can display it in your Secondary or Footer Menu. You can also create a new Custom Menu Widget to display it in any of Edin’s widget areas.

Edin will automatically apply an icon if it’s available.

Available icons

Linking to any of the following sites will automatically display its icon in your menu:

CodePen

Digg

Dribbble

Dropbox

Facebook

Flickr

GitHub

Google+

Instagram

LinkedIn

Email (mailto: links)

Pinterest

Pocket

Polldaddy

Reddit

RSS Feed (urls with /feed/)

StumbleUpon

Tumblr

Twitter

Vimeo

WordPress

YouTube

Widget Areas

Edin offers seven widget areas, which can be configured in Customize→ Widgets:

To add a testimonial, go to My Site → Testimonials → Add. Testimonials are composed of the testimonial text, the name of the customer — added as testimonial title — and an image or logo, which can be added as a Featured Image.

Testimonial Archive Page

All testimonials are displayed on the testimonial archive page, which can be added to a Custom Menu using the Links Panel.

This page can be further customized by adding a title, intro text, and featured image via Customizer → Testimonials. This content will appear above the testimonials list.

Extras

Edin comes with two extra CSS styles, button and button-minimal. You can add these two classes to your links by using the HTML Editor. We recommend creating a „call to action“ button on the Front Page, for example: